Is Joe Biden the most influential vice president ever?

Vice President Joe Biden’s role in crafting a fiscal-cliff deal that gained approval in both the Senate and the House in the past few days raises his political profile to a lofty new level.

Michael Hirsh of the National Journal SAYS Biden’s stature as a vice president has few, if any, historical parallels:

Over the past four years Biden has insinuated himself into the White House, while seeming hardly to try, in a way that no other vice president in memory has done. He and Obama, both consummate pragmatists though they tend to be liberal in outlook, have achieved something ...

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Pat Cunningham

Vice President Joe Biden’s role in crafting a fiscal-cliff deal that gained approval in both the Senate and the House in the past few days raises his political profile to a lofty new level.

Michael Hirsh of the National Journal SAYS Biden’s stature as a vice president has few, if any, historical parallels:

Over the past four years Biden has insinuated himself into the White House, while seeming hardly to try, in a way that no other vice president in memory has done. He and Obama, both consummate pragmatists though they tend to be liberal in outlook, have achieved something ...

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